Audio

Added delay before playing ‘hover’ item sound to reduce audio spamming in garage

Performance pass on general gameplay to reduce voice count on lower volume assets

Director Camera (Beta)

A new Spectator camera option called ‘Director’ has been added

The Director is an AI-controlled Camera mode that predicts Shots, Goals, and Saves and cuts to the best player view to frame the action

Competitive Season 5

Competitive Season 5 has ended. Titles and items will be awarded for your highest rank achieved during the season. Season 5 Rewards are custom, non-tradeable Player Banners

Receiving the Season 5 Reward Player Banners is also contingent upon successful completion of Season Reward Levels

Reward Player Banners:

‘Season 5 - Bronze (Dragon)'

‘Season 5 - Silver (Dragon)'

‘Season 5 - Gold (Dragon)'

‘Season 5 - Platinum (Dragon)'

‘Season 5 - Diamond (Dragon)'

‘Season 5 - Champion (Dragon)'

‘Season 5 - Grand Champion (Dragon)'

Season 5 Grand Champions will also receive the 'Season 5 Grand Champion' Title

A second set of Season Reward Player Banners will also be awarded, with the same requirements outlined above:

'Season 5 - Bronze'

'Season 5 - Silver'

'Season 5 - Gold'

'Season 5 - Platinum'

'Season 5 - Diamond'

'Season 5 - Champion'

'Season 5 - Grand Champion'

Competitive Season 6

Competitive Season 6 has begun

Season 6 brings a “soft reset” that requires you to do placement matches in each playlist to recalibrate

Winning half of your placement matches will land you near your previous season ranking

Rank requirements have been updated to distribute more players into Platinum tier and higher, and to reduce the amount of players in Bronze I

League Rankings will be temporarily empty until players complete their placement matches

Local Match (Steam Only)

Players on Steam can now host and join LAN matches directly through the Play menu

‘Host Local Lobby’ to create a LAN server that other players can join on your network

‘Find Local Lobby’ to browse for LAN servers you can connect to

Local / LAN matches allow you and your friends to compete without the need for an internet connection

The LAN Lobby creator is hosting the match on their computer. Using Alt-Tab in Fullscreen mode or taking other actions on that computer may affect server performance. Using a Spectator PC to host the lobby for LAN events is recommended

KNOWN ISSUES

Starbase ARC has a few textures that aren't rendering correctly at map start

These textures should correct once a match begins, should not affect gameplay

Xbox One may crash in Main Menu if opening and closing too many menus quickly

BUG FIXES

General

Bumping and Demolish Updates

Fixed an issue where car collisions could be incorrectly handled depending on the order the physics engine processed them in

Fixed an issue where Demolishes and Bumps could be incorrectly handled depending on the depth of its bumper penetration into the other car’s collision.

Ball Indicator on Champions Field has been fixed

Restored Batmobile to its pre-Anniversary Update state based on community feedback

The Steam Controller now works as intended on Mac hardware

Party members can no longer be pulled out of a Ranked match by a Party Leader

Winning player no longer receives a loss when leaving a Ranked 1v1 match during an overtime Goal Replay

Entering Free Play while joining an Online Match no longer prevents players from joining an Online Match

Xbox One

Crash fixes

Fixed a performance issue related to a few Achievements

Fixed an issue where VSync was not being properly disabled even when checked off in the Video Options